Does glob() have negation?

Question

I know I can do this...

glob(\'/dir/somewhere/*.zip\');

...to get all files ending in .zip, but is there a way to return all f

Answer 1

This pattern will work:

glob('/dir/somewhere/*.{?,??,[!z][!i][!p]*}', GLOB_BRACE);

which finds everything in /dir/somewhere/ ending in a dot followed by either

• one character (?)
• or two characters (??)
• or anything not starting with the consecutive letter z,i,p ([!z][!i][!p]*)